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I was thinking for some time about creating a vampire game that really is horrifying--but fun to play. Let's face it, most vampire games just aren't scary. I mean, how scary is some effeminate, homoerotic, emo--thoroughly Ann Rice inspired--vampire who's worried about becoming a monster, anyway? Is that even fun to play?
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Agreed 100%. If I became a vampire, I wouldn't be the "oh no, what shall I do? How can I stop hurting people?" kind of vampire, oh no, I'd be the ravening monster striding through the ages and creating a horde of followers kind of vampire. Of course, I'd be staked through the heart pretty quickly.
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And the others are just too fantastical. Or they're set in a gothic nightmare world, etc. Or, at least that's what it seems to someone who's not going to spend all his money looking at all that's out there, vampire-wise.
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Vampires are gothic, that's pretty much a fact, even modern day ones have massive gothic hangovers.
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I guess what I'm trying to get at is that I'm thinking about a game that would have the characters acting like the typical adventuring characters of any rpg. But have them be vampires who slaughter and steal from and do battle with people in a modern setting (or a "real world" historical setting). And they must do it in a way that mortal society doesn't find out about them. Mostly using guile, but if you want to play a character that just charges right in, you can do that, too. It seems like this game would be best for one-shots.
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Sounds good to me. Any vampire character I played would also have a couple of guns, just to even things out a bit.He would also have some personally loyal henchmen who would protect him form those nasty little vampire hunters who come around during the daytime. He would move between the near-Arctic North and the near-Antarctic South, making sure he stayed awake as long as he could.
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I've watched two recent vampire movies that inspired me:
Amazon.com: 30 Days of Night: Josh Hartnett,Craig Hall,Melissa George: Movies & TV
Amazon.com: Mrs. Amworth: Magenta Brooks,Christy Sullivan,Daniel Ross,Jim Nalitz,Ben Murrie,Frank Sciurba: Movies & TV
And one oldie, but goodie: Amazon.com: The Norliss Tapes: Roy Thinnes,Don Porter,Angie Dickinson,Claude Akins,Michele Carey,Vonetta McGee,Hurd Hatfield,Bryan O'Byrne,Ed Gilbert,Robert Mandan,Jane Dulo,Bob Schott,George DiCenzo,Patrick M. Wright,Nick Dimitri,Stanley Adams,Dan C |
30 Days of Night was OK, but didn't really grab me that much.
If you want some good modernp-day vampire films with a lot of atmoshere then watch Innocent Blood, Lost Boys and Near Dark. Even John Carpenter's Vampires is pretty good from a vampire-hunting point of view.
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I suspect that if done right the game could be really good at using ethical issues as a theme.
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It could, but where's the fun in that?
Playing vampire hunters and having to kill a small vampire child is an ethical dilemma that works across many types of game. Choosing between genocide and letting monsters live is another.
But, I prefer to leave ethical issues out of games as they've always made my gaming groups uncomfortable in the past and we like our games to be fun.
Back to vampires. I have thought for a long time there are 2 kinds of vampires - nobles and thugs. The nobles are the aristocratic ones that have followers, artistic tastes, wear capes and live in expensive coffins. Thugs are the ones who would rip you apart just because they can, who make their friends immortal and live for the moment. Thugs die quickly, nobles live for centuries.